Boston bombing suspect tells parents he and his brother innocent

The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has recovered enough to walk and has assured his parents in a phone conversation that he and his slain brother were innocent.Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, walked without a wheelchair to speak to his mother last week for the only phone conversation they have had since he has been in custody.

His mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, said her son told her he was getting better.

He said that he had a very good doctor, but was struggling to understand what happened.

“He didn’t hold back his emotions either, as if he were screaming to the whole world: What is this? What’s happening?” she said.

Three people were killed and more than 260 were wounded in the bombings on 15 April.

The elder brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shoot out with police, and Dzhokhar remains in a prison hospital after being badly injured.

His mother said: “I could just feel that he was being driven crazy by the unfairness that happened to us, that they killed our innocent Tamerlan.”Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s father Anzor said: “All I can do is pray to God and hope that one day fairness will win out, our children will be cleared, and we will at least get Dzhokhar back, crippled, but at least alive.”

Separately, at a news conference in Moscow, the father of a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter who was killed during FBI questioning accused agents of being “bandits” who executed his son.

Abdul-Baki Todashev showed journalists 16 photographs that he said were of his son, Ibragim, in a Florida morgue.

He said his son had six gunshot wounds to his torso and one to the back of his head.

It was not immediately possible to authenticate the photographs.

The FBI says Todashev was being questioned by an FBI agent and two Massachusetts state troopers about his ties to Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as well as about a 2011 triple slaying in Massachusetts.

Three law enforcement officials said initially that Ibragim Todashev had lunged at the FBI agent with a knife, although two of them later said it was no longer clear what had happened.

Muslim community unconditionally condemns and repudiates
the bombings that took place in Boston. We share the pain of fellow Americans
and express our sincere condolences to the families and friends of those who
were killed or injured in this vicious attack. The killing of innocents can
never be justified. And, it is our hope that the perpetrator(s) of this
horrible act soon be apprehended and brought to justice.
Two brothers, one dead, one alive and at large. After
hours when they were known only by grainy images of two men in baseball caps, a
portrait gradually emerged Friday of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon
bombing. They had come to the United States about 10 years ago from a Russian
region near Chechnya, according to an uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery
Village, Md. They had two sisters. As kids they rode bikes and skateboards on
quiet Norfolk Street in Cambridge, Mass. But their lives appeared to take
different turns — at least until this week, when a video caught them together on
Boylston Street, moments before two bombs unleashed terror at the finish line of
America's most famous race. Tamerlan, believed to be 26 when he was killed
overnight in a shootout, dropped out after studying accounting at Bunker Hill
Community College for just three semesters. "I don't have a single American
friend. I don't understand them." he was quoted as saying in a photo package
that appeared in a Boston University student magazine in 2010. He identified
himself then as a Muslim and said he did not drink or smoke: "God said no
alcohol." He said he hoped to fight for the U.S. Olympic team and become a
naturalized American. He said he was studying to become an engineer. More
recently, Tamerlan — married, with a young daughter — became a more devout
Muslim, according to his aunt, Maret Tsarnaeva. She told reporters outside her
Toronto home Friday that the older brother had taken to praying five times a
day. He was currently attending the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth,
Mass., university officials said Friday. He lived on the third floor of the Pine
Dale dormitory. Ever hear of Tamerlane, leader of the Mongolian hordes who
invaded Persia, Turkey, Russia and India in the 1300's? The brother here was
named after him. The IRA was a TERRORIST organization who bombed schools full of
children, massacred innocents and put bombs in busy London subway stations
...oh, and thy were all "devout" Roman Catholics .....how many Catholics were
blamed for this and generalized as terrorists? ..I'm just saying. Why are they
being called Chechen, they obviously have citizenship? Is it too embarrassing
for the government to call them what they are, after all they gave them
citizenship? They're Americans - not Chechen, but domestic terrorists. The only
question is of course why? They also appear to be well integrated into American
life just as the 7/7 bombers in the UK so really nobody would be any the
wiser.
Boston bombers are the product of the western education
which makes a man stupid, selfish and corrupt. They find themselves cut off from
their cultural heritage and are unable to enjoy the beauty of their literature
and poetry. "Mosques don't radicalize people, people radicalize people." "Mosque
says bombing suspects were 'occasional visitors,' never violent. There are many
mosques in Europe and the United States that are open to non-Muslims. But, it is
important to show proper respect in the mosque.
Although this is a very unfortunate event (Boston
bombing), bombs like this are raining down in the middle﻿ east day and night but
no one is saying a word or standing up for them. Is the Muslim blood really
inferior to everyone else? Religious beliefs should not be the focus of this
investigation. There is about 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and how many
commit atrocities like this? And last time I checked the Aurora shooter's and
the Sandy Hook shooter's religious beliefs were not publicized and connected to
their acts. Religion is only an important factor when its not Christian.
What’s going on in Texas? Why are we forcing the Boston
tragedy down our throats but ignoring an even bigger loss of life in Texas? Why
are they being called Chechen, they obviously have citizenship? Is it too
embarrassing for the government to call them what they are, after all they gave
them citizenship? They're Americans - not Chechen, but domestic terrorists. The
only question is of course why? They also appear to be well integrated into
American life just as the 7/7 bombers in the UK so really nobody would be any
the wiser.
Please think and remember in your prayers the victims of
Boston bombing. Please do not forget to think and remembers in your prayers the
victims of American bombing in Iraq, Afghanistan and drone attacks in the tribal
areas of Pakistan. Even in Karachi and Quetta, innocent peoples are victim of
bomb blasts and a common Pakistani points his figure at American
CIA.
The true honest practicing Muslims were all absolutely
shocked and remorseful about what happened in Boston. This is a huge tragedy and
a loss for all as humanitarians. This is so sad.